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Most of the mana bases I've seen rely on around 18-20 lands, which makes Mox Diamond inconsistent. Lotus Petal, while helping both Metalcraft and a short burst of mana, also suffers from mana...

Sundering Titan may swing it in our favor, but very unlikely we can afford to Transmute into it.

I agree and can corroborate this. It's the weakest card in the deck, and does not help the synergies for the combo. It's an orthogonal Plan B, and mighty weak at that.

vs Matches that were attacking with Eldrazi (and hence we need Ensnaring Bridge, actually any matchups where I bring in Bridge - adjusted for fair / unfair strategies. Spellskite for fair matchups,...

Grindstone will only continue to mill if there are exactly 2 cards milled. Progenitus will continue to get shuffled into the deck until it's the last card. Then, since only one card is milled,...

Usually don't have an issue with Chalice @ 1; Transmute Artifact fixes that rather easily. As does Wurmcoil Engine beatdown.

The cost may matter in situations when Mox Opal providing mana through metalcraft would be a make or break situation. I think it has less than 5% impact on whether you play Spellbomb or Crypt.


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... Nihil Spellbomb costs :1: to cast and only tapping to activate...

Mox Opal.

OK so my story starts about a week ago after I took Maverick to a local prize tournament, and proceeded to go 2-3. Yep, def not playing that deck without more tuning or practice. Time to switch...

#game.

Jacob Hilty's newest list:

Maindeck:
4 Painter's Servant
2 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Goblin Welder

3 Grim Monolith
4 Grindstone
1 Lion's Eye Diamond

Novelty factor?
Budget (as much as that makes sense... $600 playset is still cheaper than FOW + Volcs + Fetches)

I was thinking that the lists running Transmute Artifact and Painter/Stone were attempting to maximize the use of that combo and adding other complimentary "Plan B"s. When I look at such lists,...

OK, I'm back to working on this deck again. Nothing related at all to the legend rule, but it's a nice bonus come mid-July. Part of the reason why I think this deck is good to pick up right now for...

Played in a Legacy Daily Event tonite with my old take on Painter. The SB was a little wonky because I refuse to drop 8 tix on Spellskites. Anyways, take from it what you will:
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I cant agree with not running Top and Welder in the same deck. The filtering it provides is so much more important than Transmute Artifact. I would run 4 Tops before considering to run the first TA.

It was... unimpressive. It never helped me win a game I was already losing.

I played the following list last weekend, finishing in 9th place on breakers at 4-2.

Lands (21):
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Volcanic Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Badlands
1 Island
4 Ancient Tomb
1...